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Registering vehicles and firearms

Register a plate against a civilian, renew an expired registration, set registration status including stolen, and register firearms that receive an issued serial number.

Both belong to a civilian rather than to your account. Five of each per civilian.

Create a civilian before registering either.

Registering a vehicle

Open VEHICLES and select REGISTER A VEHICLE, or pick Register a vehicle on HOME.

  1. Select the owner from your civilians.
  2. Enter the plate.
  3. Enter the year, which defaults to the current one.
  4. Enter the make and model.
  5. Enter the colour.
  6. Select REGISTER.

Plates are unique within the community. A plate already in use returns "That plate is already registered in this community." Communities are independent, so the same plate can exist in two.

Each vehicle row shows the plate, year, make, model, colour, owner and registration status.

Registration status

EDIT on a vehicle has a Registration Status dropdown with VALID, STOLEN, EXPIRED and SUSPENDED.

The owner sets it, and it appears on the REGISTRATION line of any vehicle return. STOLEN also marks the plate line itself and flags the record in an officer's search results.

Officers can separately add a stolen flag from their side. See flags and person notes.

Renewing a registration

A vehicle whose registration is EXPIRED shows RENEW. Select it and the registration returns to VALID.

Registering a firearm

Open FIREARMS and select REGISTER A FIREARM, or pick Register a firearm on HOME.

  1. Select the owner.
  2. Enter the make and model.
  3. Choose the type. Pistol, rifle, shotgun or other.
  4. Enter the calibre.
  5. Select REGISTER.

The serial number is issued rather than entered, and it is what officers search by.

Firearm status

EDIT on a firearm changes the status only, from VALID, STOLEN or UNREGISTERED.

The serial, make, model, type and calibre are shown as read only. Correcting any of those means deleting the record and registering it again.

Status appears on the firearm return, and STOLEN flags the record in search results.

Deleting

Both lists show DELETE with a confirmation reading "Delete this vehicle?" or "Delete this firearm record?"

Deleting removes the record, so an officer running that plate or serial afterwards gets no result.

Deleting the civilian that owns them removes both. See civilians.

Related pages

  • The civilian sideCivilians, vehicles, firearms, court cases and emergency calls live in the civilian view, and everything units can look up starts here.
  • Creating and editing civiliansCreate a civilian, receive an automatically issued driver licence, set which one is primary, and set the licence status officers see.
  • Running a queryThree searches sit on the Query page. Partial names and plates match, a single result opens straight away and multiple results give you a list.
  • Flags and person notesThe person flags and the vehicle and firearm record flags, how to add and remove them, and why a warrant flag cannot be removed by hand.
  • Reading and sharing a system returnWhat a person, vehicle or firearm return contains, how to pin one for later, and how attaching a return to a call shares it with every unit on it.

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